Q: Motor blown

Having a car that won’t start or unlock can be frustrating. Since you might have two or three different concerns, I will answer them in order that they were presented. Let's start with the car randomly shutting down. Does your...

This is a sign of a blown head gasket. When your car overheats (https://www.yourmechanic.com/services/car-is-overheating-inspection) and causes the cylinder head gasket to become compromised, this can cause a leak at the combustion chamber (which is also an area where coolant and...

Hello. The mass airflow sensor and the idle air control both service as inputs for the computer to make critical calculations. If the leak you are referring to is a vacuum leak, then yes, all of these components can play...

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Hello - you may very well be correct. Given your symptoms, it sounds like you have a blown headgasket (https://www.yourmechanic.com/question/possibly-blown-head-gasket-by-jan-g). This can be confirmed by checking for low compression between adjacent cylinders, white steam or smoke from the exhaust (smells...

There are a lot of possibilities, depending on whether it won't accelerate because the engine doesn't have the power, or if it doesn't accelerate because there is a problem in the drivetrain, or if it simply isn't trying to accelerate....

It sounds like you may have a fuel supply problem in getting the proper amount of fuel to the fuel injectors. As you know, when you turn the key to on, the fuel pump (https://www.yourmechanic.com/services/fuel-pump-replacement) is activated and the fuel...

It may be that you have low system voltage. That might be because of a dead battery, or it might be because of an interruption in the power distribution. But since everything is computer controlled these days, if the system...

You probably should have changed the struts in pair at least because now you have an original strut on one side and a replacement strut on the other. The two might be slightly different in construction even if they seem...